![]() Between a tyrannical and abusive patriarch, a submissive mother and sons immersing more and more into fundamentalist and anti-government beliefs, it's no wonder Brenda said Allen he should cut any link with them. Big, Screwed-Up Family: The Lafferty family.Ron had the School of the Prophets bet their money on a horse, basing on vision he claimed to have received.She begins to doubt if it was God she actually heard and if Dan actually heard him too. She heard the voice of God telling her to do so, and Dan claimed to have heard the same. Matilda confides in Brenda that this was why she married Dan.Jeb: I don't doubt you saw plenty of beards when you were in Vegas, but here the Church vigorously discourages them, so it could be meaningful. There's just no room to be both accurate and hit the key details all within such short snippets. For time constraint reasons, the history flashbacks had to be cut way, way down. ![]() This is basically an Utah variant of Big Applesauce or Tokyo Is the Center of the Universe: acting like the biggest city in a country/state is the only city. Artistic License – Geography: BYU (Brigham Young University) is in Provo, not Salt Lake City.Alliterative Family: Sam and Sara's kids are Jacob, Jarod, Joseph, Junior, and Jenny.Jeb becomes visibly frustrated when he hears this. Accomplice by Inaction: Multiple members of the Lafferty's community are guilty of this, including Bishop Low and his wife who knew about Dan's attempt to marry his stepdaughters but didn't inform the authorities.Their mother Matilda helps them escape before this happens. Dan Lafferty intends on marrying his 14-year-old and 12-year-old stepdaughters by "consummation", invoking an unholy trinity of Lecherous Stepparent, And Now You Must Marry Me and Marital Rape License.His children are terrified of him, hiding when he comes home. Ron Lafferty is not shown physically abusing his children, but he hits his wife Dianna in front of his children.Ammon also publicly gave lashings with his belt to his adult son Dan in front of a group of people and got into a fistfight with Ron. Perhaps most horrifyingly, when his son Jacob had appendicitis, Ammon denied him medical care, resulting in permanent brain damage to Jacob. Ron describes times in the past when Ammon beat his wife and his children. Ammon Lafferty beats the family dog to death with a baseball bat in front of all his sons for not finishing their chores. ![]()
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